Chapter 373: 373
On June 13th, Chen Shi was called to the bureau early in the morning . Before the morning meeting began, Lin Dongxue threw him a stack of information . After reading through it, Chen Shi asked, "What did I miss in the past two days? How did one victim become three?"
"The victim, Wang Dong, was discovered by you . The second victim, Li Xing, was originally from a case that the third team handled . The techniques used were very similar . The third team has been investigating the case for two weeks . They couldn’t find any possible suspects, so the case was taken over by Captain Lin . The third victim, Song Jicheng, was discovered when we looked into the missing persons reports from a local police station . We went to his house and found him in the refrigerator . . . We’ve now officially filed these cases as serial murders . "
"The method is indeed really similar . It feels like the murderer is like a man who is buying clothes . She walks in to kill, cleans up, and then leaves immediately after without any personal emotions invested into the process . "
"And there were hawthorn berries in all the corpses' mouths . I don't know why the killer put such sour things inside . " The thought of the taste of hawthorn berries made Lin Dongxue's teeth ache .
Shortly after, Lin Qiupu arrived and everyone began to discuss the serial murders .
The murderer's technique and weapon was the same . The motive for hiding the corpse in the refrigerator was believed to be for extending the time before discovery . This also led to difficulty in judging the time of death . The liver temperature could no longer be measured, and could only be roughly estimated . It was speculated that Wang Dong was killed about one month ago, Song Jicheng, about three weeks ago, and finally Li Xing, about two weeks ago .
All three died over a week ago, so the housing districts’ surveillance footages have been written over . The residents and property managers at the housing districts were questioned, but they didn’t have any impressions of what had happened so long ago .
As for the occupations of the victims, Wang Dong was a mid-level manager in a company . Song Jicheng was an unemployed person who had lots of free time . Li Xing was a forum blogger . Except for their being single bachelors who lived alone, they had nothing in common and lived far away from one another .
On the 11th, Peng Sijue had re-examined the scene where Wang Dong was killed . He found vomit in the toilet, but the killer had poured a lot of disinfectant inside, so they were unable to extract the DNA .
Footprints and fingerprints showed traces of being disguised . Judging from the footprints, the killer was a woman with a height of 167cm and weighing about 50kg .
It is worth mentioning that Song Jicheng, the largest of the three victims, had tried to fight the killer off before his death . Skin fragments, paraffin oil, and colorants of the killer were left behind in his fingernails . It was suspected to be a lip balm or lipstick . There might be injuries on the killer’s lips .
In addition, all three victims had downloaded a voice chat social media app . The killer seems to use the app, but the account that she used was changed after each murder . Social media apps are designed to attract user traffic, so they often just require a simple registration process .
Almost everyone in the task force downloaded the app to see if they could bait the killer .
Chen Shi raised his hand and asked, "I mentioned that day that the killer's eyesight isn’t that great . Have you guys investigated this clue yet?"
Lin Qiupu said, "The people in the housing districts didn’t have any impressions of someone that fits that characteristic . I asked people to visit the ophthalmology departments of major hospitals . There are about thirty people who fit the characteristic . The main task today is to check this out!"
"I have a question . Do the victims have cars?"
"Apart from Song Jicheng, the other two do . "
"Oh . "
"Do you have any insights on this?"
"From the murderer's actions, she is a behavior-oriented killer who only cares about achieving the goal but does not care about the process . Female serial killers are very rare . Generally, they will lock onto special types of victims . But the killer this time doesn’t seem to be a ‘picky eater’ . The types who do it for sexual desire, the adrenaline rush, and power can all be excluded . The only type left is the one who does it for profit . I noticed that her killing cycle is very regular and is about one week long on average . For a person with a visual impairment, killing someone would be really difficult . She must be able to gain tremendous benefits from the victims in order to repeatedly take on such risks . "
"Profit? No valuables were lost at the scene . I don't see any profit, unless it's killing for pleasure or something . " Lin Qiupu noted, "You forgot to mention another type - The utilitarian type . I think she only wanted to kill one of these three people . The other two were just collateral victims muddling the investigation . ”
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